Fall 2015 Courses

Accounting for Lawyers is an introduction to accounting concepts. Many business controversies are shaped by accounting thinking and business lawyers will operate in an environment where accounting is considered a universal language. The primary focus of the course will be on financial statements pre...

A study of how the government regulates citizens and business in Texas, including an analysis of the powers and procedures common to state agencies in Texas. Special focus is given to the power of agencies to regulate by the adoption of rules and the holding of due process hearings (including contes...

Anything that happens on or near any body of navigable water is liable to call forth the admiralty jurisdiction of the federal courts and the application of the national maritime law. The practice of admiralty and maritime law is somewhat specialized--admiralty lawyers still like to call themselves ...

This class has a mandatory evening skills component (Monday or Wednesday evening). Students must register for both the lecture (376M) and either Monday or Wednesday evening skills portion (176N) of the class. Advocacy survey is designed for beginning advocacy students who are interested in gaining...

This class has a mandatory evening skills component (Monday or Wednesday evening). Students must register for both the lecture (376M) and either Monday or Wednesday evening skills portion (176N) of the class. Advocacy survey is designed for beginning advocacy students who are interested in gaining...

This class has a mandatory evening skills component (Monday or Wednesday evening). Students must register for both the lecture (376M) and either Monday or Wednesday evening skills portion (176N) of the class. Advocacy survey is designed for beginning advocacy students who are interested in gaining...

This class has a mandatory evening skills component (Monday or Wednesday evening). Students must register for both the lecture (376M) and either Monday or Wednesday evening skills portion (176N) of the class. Advocacy survey is designed for beginning advocacy students who are interested in gaining...

This class has a mandatory evening skills component (Monday or Wednesday evening). Students must register for both the lecture (376M) and either Monday or Wednesday evening skills portion (176N) of the class. Advocacy survey is designed for beginning advocacy students who are interested in gaining...

This class has a mandatory evening skills component (Monday or Wednesday evening). Students must register for both the lecture (376M) and either Monday or Wednesday evening skills portion (176N) of the class. Advocacy survey is designed for beginning advocacy students who are interested in gaining...

This class has a mandatory evening skills component (Monday or Wednesday evening). Students must register for both the lecture (376M) and either Monday or Wednesday evening skills portion (176N) of the class. Advocacy survey is designed for beginning advocacy students who are interested in gaining...

This class has a mandatory evening skills component (Monday or Wednesday evening). Students must register for both the lecture (376M) and either Monday or Wednesday evening skills portion (176N) of the class. Advocacy survey is designed for beginning advocacy students who are interested in gaining...

This class has a mandatory evening skills component (Monday or Wednesday evening). Students must register for both the lecture (376M) and either Monday or Wednesday evening skills portion (176N) of the class. Advocacy survey is designed for beginning advocacy students who are interested in gaining...

This class has a mandatory evening skills component (Monday or Wednesday evening). Students must register for both the lecture (376M) and either Monday or Wednesday evening skills portion (176N) of the class. Advocacy survey is designed for beginning advocacy students who are interested in gaining...

This class has a mandatory evening skills component (Monday or Wednesday evening). Students must register for both the lecture (376M) and either Monday or Wednesday evening skills portion (176N) of the class. Advocacy survey is designed for beginning advocacy students who are interested in gaining...

A one-semester course which will cover selected, practical topics concerning Wall Street's regulatory and political environmnet. We will focus on the nature of investment products, their use and the regulatory structure surrounding them. We will discuss how some misused these products and the impa...

ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION PROFESSOR RAU Despite the emphasis on litigation in our curriculum, disputes in the United States are not settled in court: Of all the lawsuits that are filed here, less than 2% actually go through the full trial process. As a consequence, there are probably no "lit...

This two-credit course will offer a survey of tools that are useful for analyzing and arguing about multiple areas of law. The class will be organized around ideas from economics, cognitive psychology, jurisprudence, and rhetoric. Pass/fail.

The course studies the development, interpretation, and application of the antitrust laws of the United States, specifically the Sherman Act, Clayton Act, FTC Act and other laws designed to protect consumers by ensuring competition in the marketplace. Specific topics include dominant firm behavior ...

The course studies the development, interpretation, and application of the antitrust laws of the United States. These laws are the Sherman Act (1890) prohibiting combinations in "restraint of trade" and "monopolization;" the Clayton Act (1914, 1936, 1950) prohibiting, in some circumstances, price d...

This three-hour course teaches advanced persuasion skills for effective appellate briefs and oral arguments in the courts of appeals and Texas Supreme Court. Students have four writing assignments, including one brief to the court of appeals and one brief to the Texas Supreme Court, all concerning t...

This course is an introduction to the basic legal rules governing corporations. The course will focus on publicly held corporations. Among the topics covered will be fiduciary duties, conflict-of-interest transactions, executive compensation, reorganizations and control transactions, shareholder vot...

This is the enriched, five-unit version of the basic introductory and survey course in the corporations/business organizations area; there are no prerequisites whatsoever. This course considers issues relating to the selection of business form (e.g., partnership, limited partnership, corporation, an...

This course is an introduction to the basic legal rules governing corporations. The course will focus on publicly held corporations. Among the topics covered will be fiduciary duties, conflict-of-interest transactions, executive compensation, reorganizations and control transactions, shareholder vot...

This small course taught in seminar style will examine some general jurisprudential and moral issues related to the American system of capital punishment. The course will focus primarily on the development of the law governing capital punishment in the United States since 1970. Some of the main th...